“Affecting everyone’s weight loss! I have a freezer drawer full of porky lights that I now can’t eat!

“Absolutely shocking!! Will never be buying your product again and will be informing everyone I can about this!”

The £2.25 six-pack of low fat 70 per cent pork sausages were released in a limited number of smaller supermarkets last year, it is understood.

But after word spread of their alleged 0.5 syn value, the suppliers Porky Whites sold them into larger shops.

The Porky Whites Facebook page has more than 4,000 likes and almost every visitor post was from Slimming World devotees asking for more sausages.

But yesterday Slimming World consultants started to spread the word of the apparently false information about their nutritional value.

A statement shared online - which members said Slimming World had sent them, said: “The Food Co-ordination team at Slimming World Head Office has done some analysis on Porky Lights sausages, after becoming a little concerned about their fatty (albeit delicious!) texture.

“The analysis showed that the sausages were indeed much higher in fat than the nutrition panel indicated - and this does affect their Syn value significantly.

We’ve been in touch with Porky Lights to let them know our findings, and they’re looking into it as we speak.

“To help protect your weight loss until we have accurate nutritional information to use as a base for our calculations, the sausages have been temporarily removed from Syns Online, the App and Weight Loss Planner’s Syns search and on the Syns Hotline.

“In the meantime, if you have a pack of Porky Lights in your fridge/freezer, we’d recommend you count 4½ Syns per sausage.

“We’ll be in touch with more news - through your Consultant - once we have it.”

Porky Whites have been approached for a comment.

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